This whole convo’s been great, getting closure’s rare and not to undervalued. As for the aquarium thing, I love them too – but, not going to go for the obvious fish tank puns… low hanging fruit, but still amusing. Although one wonders if he ever used that as an idea for a Halloween costume? heh

I really appreciate seeing someone understand this- I hear so much of “just give him a chance” or “but what if its a good thing and you’re gonna miss out/ lose it.” Very very few people (outside of the innermost circle who know all the details) help remind me that MY BOUNDARIES ARE FOR MY EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL SAFETY. No one has any right to tell me otherwise. And yet so many do :/

I’m glad that there’s been some sort of closure between these two. Tank’s got a LONG way to go before he’s ready to be in a relationship with anyone though. It’d help if he could trust the higher ups to not fuck with him so he could go in and get the berserker shit out so he wouldn’t be tempted to screw with it etc.

Seriously, it’s completely fucked up that Rock and the rest of his fellow super soldiers have to worry about high command treating them like G.I. Joes that they can customize and accessorize as they wish. It’s one thing for them to volunteer for it, but to randomly have shit put in them just because “Wouldn’t it be kickass if Commander Badass had Wolverine claws or if Tank had machine guns in his arms!?!?” and having to worry that the next time they get put under they could be rendered alien to their friends and family?

I like fish too, but my favorite aquariums are the ones that have other animals as well, like penguins.

One of my fondest memories of an aquarium involved a glass-walled penguin enclosure, where the entire flock ended up following me around as I walked past.

The penguins had an inexplicable fascination with a crappy blue plastic electric fan on a lanyard that I was carrying around. They friggen LOVED that thing for some reason.

When I finally realized what they were so fixated on and why they were chasing me around, I stopped and started to intentionally swing it around visibly for them to gawk at, and they went totally nuts over it, like it was their favorite toy in the whole world. It was basically the cutest thing I’d ever seen in my life, and I spent a solid forty minutes letting them lose their shit over it as I swung it around in gentle loops or slowly trailed it up and down along the side of the enclosure.

One of the handlers even ended up coming by and was laughing her ass off at their reaction, saying she’d never seen them so excited about a strange object before, and was speculating it must have been something to do with that particular shade of blue that they found intriguing.

Commander continues to give us examples of good life choices. Including what to do about unhealthy relationships.

(That is; yes, they can have good qualities. But staying with them isn’t good for you OR THEM, and really its actually best for both parties if you break up. And one day, there can be healing, but you can’t do that for them)